Comments on "The Use of a Spinning Dissipator for Attitude Stabilization of Earth-Orbiting Satellites"

The spacecraft nutation damping performance claimed as a result of the analysis in a recent paper by Sen is invalid because the system equations are incorrect. This correspondence points out some serious omissions in Sen's equations and presents the correct equations whose solution shows that S...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems 1974-11, Vol.AES-10 (6), p.902-903
Main Author: Grasshoff, L.H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aerospace and electronic systems
Angular velocity
Damping
Equations
Performance analysis
Satellites
Space vehicles
Spinning
Torque
Wheels
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Summary:The spacecraft nutation damping performance claimed as a result of the analysis in a recent paper by Sen is invalid because the system equations are incorrect. This correspondence points out some serious omissions in Sen's equations and presents the correct equations whose solution shows that Sen's stabilizer is actually destabilizing.
ISSN:0018-9251
1557-9603
DOI:10.1109/TAES.1974.307907